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1. Sources of Literature Review By- Salman khan Lecturer

2. Sources of Literature Review Literature can be reviewed from two main sources, i.e. Primary Sources Secondary Sources However literature review mostly relies on primary source.

3. Primary Sources Primary sources are original, peer reviewed, and published research journal articles reported by original researchers. In other words, primary sources are the research reports, which are description of studies written by researchers who conducted them.

4. Continued… A primary source is written by a person who developed the theory or conducted the research, or is the description of an investigation written by the person who conducted it. Most primary sources are found in published literature; for ex, a nursing research article.

5. Continued… A credible literature review reflects the use of mainly primary sources. Example of a primary source An original qualitative study on patient experiences in the ICU: Hupcey, J. E. (2000). Feeling safe the psychological needs of ICU patients. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 32, 361-367.

6. Secondary Sources Secondary source research documents are description of studies prepared by someone other than the original researcher. They are written by people other than the individuals who developed the theory or conducted the research.

7. Continued… The secondary sources include the comments and summaries of multiple research studies on one topic, e.g. systemic reviews, meta-analysis, meta synthesis, etc. Secondary sources are usually paraphrased and may be based on the secondary author’s interpretation of the primary work; it is necessary then to review primary source whenever possible to ensure accuracy.

8. Continued… However the secondary sources may be used when primary sources are not available or if researchers want external opinions on an issue or problem or even the results of their own research.

9. Example of a secondary source A literature review on patient experiences in the ICU: Stein Parbury, J. & Mckinley, S. (2000). Patient experiences of being in an intensive care unit: a select literature review. American Journal of Critical Care, 9, 20-27.

10. Main Sources of ROL Electronic sources CINAHL MEDLINE PubMed British Nursing Index Medline plus Nursing & Health Sciences Registry of nursing research

11. Continued… Cochrane database of system reviews ERIC PsycINFO Dissertation abstracts online Online Journals Other online databases Printed Sources

12. Electronic Sources Computer assisted literature search has revolutionized the review of literature. These searches, however, for a variety of reasons may not provide the desired references. Electronic literature search through web may be very useful but sometimes it is time consuming and unpredictable because there are many website & web pages that can lead to information overload and confusion.

13. Continued… However currently it is one of the most important sources of literature searches.

14. CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) http://www.cinahl.com , it contains citations of nursing literature published after 1988. Even full text articles are available on CINAHL plus, a paid web page.

15. MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis & Retrieved System Online) It is another electronic source of literature review commonly used by nurses. The National Library of Medicine provides free access to MEDLINE through PubMed, available at www.pubmed.com or http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/enterz/query.fcgi . Generally, abstracts of research articles are provided free of cost; some of the full text copies are also freely available and some others are available for a free.

16. PubMed PubMed can be used to search research abstracts, available at http://www.pubmed.com

17. British Nursing Index BNI is a leading UK nursing database providing bibliographic references to journal articles from all the major British Nursing & Midwifery Journals, as well as a selection of English language international journals. It is available from Royal College of Nursing Library e-library database: www.rcn.org.uk/ elibrary

18. Medline Plus It is the national library of Medicine’s websites for consumer health information. It is available at http//www.medlineplus.gov.

19. Nursing & Health Science It is a full text collection of 24 journals published by Sage publication.

20. Registry of Nursing Research Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing makes this database available through its Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library. Access to this database has been redesigned and made easier for users to obtain evidence and scientific findings from more than 2200 research articles and conferences and conference abstracts.

21. Continued The research abstracts are searched via key words, author & title of the research study. Free access to this database may be found at http://www.nursinglibrary.org

22. Cochrane database of system reviews Health care related literature can be searched from this source, available at http://www.cochrane.org

23. ERIC The ERIC database is the largest source of education information. A free search may be carried out at http://www.eric.ed.gov

24. PsycINFO The PsycINFO database belongs to American Psychological Association and covers literature from psychological or related disciplines. It may be searched at http://wwwpsychinfo.com

25. Dissertation abstracts online Abstracts of master’s and doctoral these are available on this electronic database.

26. Online journals Following are the website addresses for journals and magazines that are available online: http://www.nursefriendly.com http://www. nsna.org http://www.healthweb.org http://www.ispub.com http://www.healthweb.org

27. Other online databases Many other online database can be searched for free by nurses from the following websites: http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov http://www.hazmap.nlm.nih.gov http://www.child.nih.gov http://www.toxinet.nlm.nih.gov

28. Continued… Cancer Lit EMBASE (Excerpta Medica Database) ETOH (Alcohol & alcohol problem science database) Health star (services technology administration & research Radix CD ROM

29. Printed Sources Printed sources are also used for literature review. Printed research summary may be located from published abstracts, such as Nursing research abstract, Psychological abstracts, dissertation abstract international, etc.

30. Journals There are several national & international journals that can be used to review the research related literature Ex- Nursing & midwifery research journal Indian journal of nursing & midwifery The nursing journal of India Nightingale Nursing Times International journal of nursing education